The fake satanic attack

In October 1996, Palmerston North detective Brent Garner was found beside his scorched home, bound and gagged.

A crude pentagram had been carved into his back. He had survived a visit from “The Executioner”, a Satanic maniac so bizarre, detectives on the hunt for him thought the only place he could exist was in the movies.

And now he does. Venus and Mars revisits the dual police investigations in the hunt for Garner’s attacker.

Venus was the official investigation in which detectives believed The Executioner was real. Several weeks later a covert operation — Mars — was launched in which Garner was treated as a suspect. It was led by Inspector Grant Nicholls.

The police suspicions were right — the 32-year-old had faked the crimes so he could claim insurance money to build a new life without his wife and two young daughters.

I’d forgotten about this case, until reading this article. It all comes back though.The only thing bigger than the original investigation was when they announced Garner’s arrest for faking his own attack.

I especially recall how painful it must have been, and difficult, to disfigure himself. You have to have something seriously wrong to do that to yourself.

Nostalgia-NZ

He eventually committed suicide so maybe looking for rationality is pointless. Supposedly not wanting to hurt his wife but still planning to leave her are 2 thoughts on a collision course, have to wonder if the grey area between mad and bad has been intellectualised to pointlessness.

“Webster does not inquire into the facts but rather focuses of cases where it seems that minimal or false evidence has resulted in a hysterical or disproportionate response” ~ UT, The Ted Heath Allegations Link

Harriet

From memory Garner studied phsycology while in jail. Anyway, one of the detectives who was on mars and had the job of frog marching him in public from the police statiion to the court house to face charges later went on to head the Lundy case.

And either just before Garner or later – there was the case at that station where an off duty constable was caught shoplifting a dress — and when on duty police went to the call-out for the shoplifting —- they found their ‘workmate’ sitting in a car outside the shop dressed as a woman. He was fired.

waikatosinger

Satantango

@DPF

Can I suggest not posting pictures like this in your posts? I really don’t want to see this sort of ‘gore porn’ while eating my weetbix in the morning. Link to it by all means so that those that wish to look can, and those that don’t, won’t.

IC5000

Gotta wonder what some people’s thought processes are. Instead of applying for a divorce and booking a one way flight to Queensland I think I’ll commit arson, insurance fraud and fake a satanic attack on myself through self-mutilation.

mandk

JIMMY SAVILE beat and raped a 12-year-old girl during a secret satanic ritual in a hospital.

The perverted star wore a hooded robe and mask as he abused the terrifi ed victim in a candle-lit basement.

He also chanted “Hail Satan” in Latin as other paedophile devil worshippers joined in and assaulted the girl at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. The attack, which happened in 1975, shines a sinister new light on the former DJ’s 54-year reign of terror.

So that’s a self-mutilating, lying fantasist and a thieving transvestite, during just one period at one station. Clearly NZ Police psychological vetting of job applicants was working as intended then. Most of the detectives I encountered were far more psychologically damaged than anyone I’ve met in prison.